Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03

dice to-day. For they begin to perceive
the divine fact that civilization, in pro-
portion as it becomes Christianized,
Will make increasing demands upon
Creations gentler half; that the Ten
Commandments and the Sermon on the
Mount are voted up or voted down up
on election day; and that a military ex-
igency requires the army of the Prince
of Peace to call out it's reserves.-Fran-
ces E. Willard.
Miss Octavia Hill, who has done so
much to improve the condition of the
London slums, proposes to set up in
Southwark akind of palace of entertain
ment for the poor people of that district.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will
be associated with Mrs. MarthaJ. Lamb
in editing the Magazine Of American
History. She will probably take charge
of department under her own name.
Elise p. Buckingham successfully
manages fruit farm of several humid
red acres in California, and urges other
women to take up the same kind of
work, for which she thinks women are
we'll fitted.
All the house-work Of Wellesley Col
lege is done by the students, who de-
vote to it forty-fve minutes out of the
twenty-four hours. There are 300 girls,
and every girl is trained to do one kind
of work, and to do it quickly and well.
Incorporation saves vast deal of time
and labor.
The Connecticut Legislature has
passed bill making women eligible to
serve on school boards. Women per-
form such services acceptably in many
other states, and in spite Of the dismal
predictions Of the opposition, the foun-
dations of society in Connecticut are
not likely to be seriously shaken.
One of the most surprising and I'M
comfortable tendencies Of the period is
exempliHed by the fact that an "aIumni
thinner" was lately given in Chicago by
alumni of the Northwestern Universe
ty, a strict co-educatlonal school, to
which not an alumna was invited
Query: Had after dinner smoke any
thing to do with this?
! Mrs. Agnew and Miss Dodge, the two
women members of the New York
School Board, pay particular attention
to the sanitary condition of the schools,
and to all matters relating to the COM
fort Of the buildings. They notice lit
| tie defects which escape the attention
of men. The janitors are said to be dis.
mayed when asked to show the cellars.
| Miss Andrews, one of the Wellesley
professors, knows Hawaiian, and greet
ed Queen Kapiolani with a compli-
mentary speech in her native tongue
when the queen visited the college,
The Evening Record says: 1T will now
| be believed by outsiders that, il She
herself should appear among US, there
| would be found some one ready to well
come her N her own language"
| know that many cultivated and re-
fined women say they do not want Wo-
| men to vote, because they do not want
to increase the amount of ignorant suf-
frage. I respect the intelligence and
refinement Of the ladies who make such
remarks; but [ believe that on most
moral questions women is likely to be
more Intelligent, and certainly more
disinterestYd, than man.-Joseph Cook.
The question whether woman is le-
| gally person has come up before the
courts at different times, and has been
decided in the affirmative or negative
according to the liberality or conserv-
atism of the judges. Thus, in Massa-
schusetts, where properly qualified "per-
sons" were entitled to practice law, the
supreme court decided, that Miss Leila
~. Robinson, though properly qualified,
was not person; and special act OF
the legislature had to be passed to en-
able her to practice. Now, for the first
time, the question has arisen whether
a man is person. One Samuel Clark,
recently arrested and bound over to the
grand jury for being found in dis
orderly house in Iowa, was released on
writ of habeas corpus, tried before
Judge Given. The grounds for the de-
,ision were that the word person as u.s.
ed in the statutes does not apply to a
man found in such house, but only to
women. The Iowa Tribune caustically